Site Reliability Engineer — AWS Cloud & Data Delivery

Royal Society of Chemistry; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 71,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our DevOps team. You will design, deploy and operate AWS-based cloud services to improve reliability, availability and performance across staff tools, websites and data platforms.

You will advance observability, CI/CD, automation and secure data delivery using S3, DataSync, CloudFront and Transfer Family, collaborating with product teams and data owners to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, deploying and operating AWS infrastructure.
• Familiar with Terraform, CI/CD, and multi-environment deployments.
• Strong collaboration with product teams and data owners.

Responsibilities

• Deliver reliable and efficient services using SRE principles, with observability and SLIs/SLOs.
• Automate toil, improve self-service and streamline deployments.
• Design and maintain monitoring and alerting for service health.
• Review tools and pipelines to ensure secure, scalable DevOps delivery.
• Lead post-incident reviews and implement corrective actions.

Skills

AWS cloud

CI/CD

Observability

Team collaboration

Education

Tools

Terraform

AWS

DataSync

S3

CloudFront

Transfer Family

Job description

The Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our DevOps team. You will design, deploy and operate AWS-based cloud services to improve reliability, availability and performance across staff tools, websites and data platforms.

You will advance observability, CI/CD, automation and secure data delivery using S3, DataSync, CloudFront and Transfer Family, collaborating with product teams and data owners to deliver scalable, resilient solutions.